{"id":15643,"date":"2019-10-09T23:51:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T21:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=15643"},"modified":"2019-10-10T09:37:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T07:37:32","slug":"a-waiting-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/a-waiting-game\/","title":{"rendered":"A waiting game"},"content":{"rendered":"

All has gone to plan. I arrived in the UK at Stansted airport via Ryanair as scheduled last Friday and after a false start located the company from which I’d pre-ordered a hire car at an off-airport hotel. An hour or so later I was at my sister and brother-in-law’s home in Kent. <\/p>\n

The next morning I drove to my pal’s place where my X-air is being stored to get cracking on preparing it for its flight over to its new home in France. And there I stayed for the next few days until I’d completed all of the work that was necessary to get it airworthy and completely ready to go. <\/p>\n

I filled its tanks to the brim yesterday and today I was back there again replacing its radiator overflow bottle and helping to cut a strip to take off from when the weather eventually decides to play ball. <\/p>\n

I’m delighted with how well everything’s gone – I couldn’t have asked for much better actually. The only surprise I had was finding that the new carburettor rubbers that I took with me wouldn’t fit because the inlets are of a non-standard pattern, probably because an anti-icing system is fitted.<\/p>\n

24ZN is now all ready to go and looks a treat as the following pictures show. <\/p>\n

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And now it’s just a matter of playing a waiting game with the weather. I almost couldn’t have chosen a worse time to have planned a flight from the UK to France as not only are we apparently locked in an extended period of high winds but they are also from the south or with a strong southerly component. But all things must end and, fingers crossed, I should be away some time next week. Here’s hoping anyway \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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